- First day of the month of MAY
- Bank Holiday : day off school and work
- originates from Pagan festival
- celebration of the coming of spring : flowers / streets start to blossom
- expression of joy/ hope after a long winter
May poledancing : symbol of community bounding
- plaited pattern of ribbons round the pole
- Crowning of the May Queen
- human replica of the goddess Flora
- sat like a queen in a flower-decked chair to watch her " subjects "
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